9th SYMPOSIUM ON LARGE TPCs FOR LOW-ENERGY RARE EVENT DETECTION

12 Dec 2018, 08:00 → 14 Dec 2018, 17:00 Europe/Paris

Amphi Buffon (Diderot University)

Ioannis Giomataris (CEA-Saclay)

 The ninth international symposium on “Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection” will be held in Paris on the 12th-14th of December 2018. The purpose of the meeting is an extensive discussion of present and future projects using a large TPC for low energy, low background detection of rare events (low-energy neutrinos, double beta decay, dark matter, solar axions). There is an increasing number of experiments using or planning to use very large gaseous or liquid TPCs. A common feature of the detection scheme will be the measurement of the energy and direction of ion recoils. The search for light dark matter is a new challenge calling for low energy threshold and light recoiling atoms. New ideas are emerging for detector concepts adapted to physics requirements. The use of gaseous micropattern detectors seems to be a promising way to reach this goal. The symposium will be held in Paris, at the Amphi Buffon near the National Library for the 12th-13th of December and at the Amphi Olympe-de-Gouges at the14th of December. The physics and the present status of dark matter search, axion search, and neutrino studies will be reviewed together with discussions on evolving technologies relevant to these searches.

 

                                

           

 

 

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Wednesday, 12 December

08:30 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:14 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Antoine David Kouchner (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

09:14 → 09:15 Session chair : C. Volpe

09:15 → 10:00 Review on neutrino physics

Speaker: Serguey Petcov (SISSA/INFN, Trieste, Italy)

PetcovParis121218sh.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Gamma ray polametry in astrophysics

Speaker: Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

talk.pdf

10:30 → 10:59 coffee break

10:59 → 11:00 Session chair : F. Vannucci

11:00 → 11:20 Global analysis of oscillation parameters

Speaker: Dr Antonio Marrone (Univ. of Bari)

LTPC2018_Marrone.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Status of the NEXT project

Speaker: Lior Arazi (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

2-Status of the NEXT project v2a.pdf

11:40 → 12:00 Topology of neutrino-less double beta decay on the PandaX-III experiment

Speaker: Javier Galan Lacarra (CEA Saclay)

9th TPC PandaX-III Topology-6.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 A new neutrinoless double beta decay experiment: R2D2

Speaker: Anselmo Meregaglia (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

Meregaglia-TPCParis2018.pdf

12:20 → 12:40 The MicroBooNE continuous readout stream for detection of supernova neutrinos

Speaker: José I. Crespo-Anadón (Columbia University)

20181212_JICrespoAnadon_TPC2018.odp

20181212_JICrespoAnadon_TPC2018.pdf

12:40 → 13:59 Lunch

13:59 → 14:00 Session chair : T. Patzak

14:00 → 14:30 Future accelerators for neutrino physics

Speaker: Alain Blondel (Universite de Geneve (CH))

Blondel-neutrinos-TPC-Paris-2018-12-12.pdf

Blondel-neutrinos-TPC-Paris-2018-12-12.pptx

14:30 → 14:50 Low energy muon reconstruction in micro-BooNE

Speaker: Dr Adrien Hourlier (MIT)

Hourlier_TPCSymposium_2018.pdf

14:50 → 15:10 Status of protoDUNE single phase

Speaker: Maura Ninuccia Spanu (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))

Spanu_Paris2018.pdf

Spanu_Paris2018.pptx

15:10 → 15:30 Status of protoDUNE double phase

Speaker: Jaime Victoria Dawson (Universite de Paris VII (FR))

dawson_TPC_2018.pdf

15:30 → 15:59 coffee break

15:59 → 16:00 Session chair A. Delbart

16:00 → 16:20 T2K TPC performance

Speaker: Emilio Radicioni (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

20181212.TPCsymposium.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Upgrade of the T2K ND280 TPC

Speaker: Gianmaria Collazuol (INFN Sezione di Pisa (INFN))

Workshop_Paris_20181212-ND280_UP_TPC_GCollazuol_v1.pdf

16:40 → 17:00 Beam test of ARIADNE, a liquid argon TPC with optical readout

Speaker: k Mavrokoridis (University of Liverpool (GB))

AriadneParis.pptx

17:00 → 17:20 An unlimited large TPC pixel detector plane

Speakers: Dr Fred Hartjes (Nikhef), Frederik Hartjes (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

QUAD_development-4.pdf

Thursday, 13 December

08:59 → 09:00 Session chair : P. Colas

09:00 → 09:30 The nEXO double-beta decay experiment

Speaker: Giorgio Gratta (Charles C. Lauritsen Laboratory of High Energy Physics)

1-TPC_workshop_Paris_Dec2018.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Review on directional dark matter detection

Speaker: Daniel Eduardo Santos (LPSC-Grenoble/CNRS-IN2P3/UJF/INP)

DMDirectionalDetection_LTPC2018_DSantos.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Results from the 1 tonne*year Dark Matter Search with XENON1T

Speaker: Carla Macolino (LAL/CNRS)

Macolino_XENON1T_TPCSymposium_APC2018.pdf

10:30 → 10:59 coffee break

10:59 → 11:00 Session chair : M. Cirelli

11:00 → 11:30 DarkSide: the quest for dark matter with liquid argon

Speaker: Claudio Giganti (LPNHE Paris (IN2P3/CNRS))

DarkSide_TPCSymposium_2018.pdf

11:30 → 11:50 Status of the LZ experiment

Speaker: Alden Fan (SLAC/Stanford)

AFan_LZstatus_20181213_v3.pdf

11:50 → 12:10 Low BG TPC for direction-sensitive dark matter search

Speaker: Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University)

miuchi_201812_Paris.pdf

12:10 → 12:30 DARWIN: Towards the Ultimate Dark Matter Detector

Speaker: Dr Michelle Galloway

darwin_galloway_122018.pdf

12:30 → 13:59 Lunch

13:59 → 14:00 Session chair : E. Ferrer-Ribas

14:00 → 14:20 Dark atom solution for puzzles of direct dark matter searches

Speaker: Maxim Khlopov (National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (RU))

TCP Khlopov talk.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 Status of Baby-IAXO to search for solar axions

Speaker: Theopisti Dafni (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

TDafni_BabyIAXO_paris2018.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 A low-background Micromegas detector for IAXO and BabyIAXO

Speaker: Elisa Ruiz Choliz (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

TPC2018_Paris_ElisaRC_MMForIAXO.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Status of low mass WIMP detector TREX-DM

Speaker: Mr Hector Mirallas Sanchez (Universidad de Zaragoza (ES))

TREXDM_ParisTPCs2018_HMirallas.pdf

15:20 → 15:49 coffee break

15:49 → 15:50 Session chair : G. Gerbier

15:50 → 16:20 Review of NEWS-G Dark Matter searches and related projects

Speaker: Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)

Review of the NEWS-G Dark Matter Searches and Related Projects - Final.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Recent developments on the NEWS-G spherical proportional counter sensors

Speaker: Ioannis Katsioulas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

TPC_2018_katsioulas.pdf

16:40 → 17:00 Study and mitigation of spurious electron emission from cathodic wires in noble liquid time projection chambers

Speaker: Dr Alfredo Tomas Alquezar (Imperial College London)

181213_TPCParis2018_ATomas.pdf

Friday, 14 December

08:59 → 09:00 Session chair : T. Papaevengelou

09:00 → 09:30 QPix: Pixel-scale Signal Capture For Kiloton Liquid Argon TPC Detectors: Charge-Quantized Waveform Capture, Free-running Clocks, Dynamic Networks

Speaker: Yuan MEI (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

QpixNygren201812.pdf

QpixNygren201812.pptx

09:30 → 09:50 Optical readout of GEM-based TPCs: ultra-fast optical readout and transparent readout anodes

Speaker: Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN, Vienna University of Technology (AT))

OpticalGEMTPC-Symposium2018.pdf

09:50 → 10:10 Developments for spherical single phase LXe TPCs

Speaker: Hiroyuki Sekiya (University of Tokyo)

Paris2018-Sekiya_v1.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Progress on barium tagging for NEXT

Speaker: Ben Jones (UT Arlington)

BJPJ_ParisTalk.pdf

BJPJ_ParisTalk.pptx

10:30 → 10:59 coffee break

10:59 → 11:00 Session chair : A. Dastgheibi-Fard

11:00 → 11:20 Progress of the Picosec Micromegas concept towards a robust particle detector with segmented readout

Speaker: Lukas Sohl (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

PicosecTPC2018_highres.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Gas properties characterization for the NEWS-G detector

Speaker: Philippe Gros (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)

2018-12-14_TPC_PGros_NEWSG_LaserGas.pdf

11:40 → 12:00 Gas and copper purity investigations for the NEWS-G detector

Speaker: Patrick Knights (University of Birmingham)

TPC2018_knights.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Muon Tomography with Micromegas: Archaeology, Nuclear Safety and new developments for Geotechnics

Speaker: Hector Gomez Maluenda (CEA Saclay)

20181214_TPCSymp_HGomez.pdf